(19)
(11) EP 0 898 428 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
24.03.1999 Bulletin 1999/12

(43) Date of publication A2:
24.02.1999 Bulletin 1999/08

(21) Application number: 98118250.4

(22) Date of filing: 19.04.1996
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)6: H04N 9/29, H02H 5/04
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB

(30) Priority: 20.04.1995 JP 95118/95

(62) Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
96302747.9 / 0739145

(71) Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Nagaokakyo-shi Kyoto-fu (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Ikeda, Yutaka c/o Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd.,
    Nagaokakyo-shi, Kyoto-fu (JP)
  • Takaoka, Yuichi c/o Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd.,
    Nagaokakyo-shi, Kyoto-fu (JP)

(74) Representative: Hillier, Peter et al
Reginald W. Barker & Co., Chancery House, 53-64, Chancery Lane
London, WC2A 1QU
London, WC2A 1QU (GB)

 
Remarks:
This application was filed on 25 - 09 - 1998 as a divisional application to the application mentioned under INID code 62.
 


(54) Current limiting device


(57) A demagnetizing circuit and a current limiting device thereof for being built into a power supply circuit of a color television receiver or color monitor display or the like with which it is possible to effect a reliable demagnetizing operation using existing components and without using either a positive characteristic thermistor which reaches a high temperature or a relay circuit. The demagnetizing circuit is connected in parallel with a power supply circuit having a smoothing capacitor (4) and a negative characteristic thermistor (7) or fixed resistance for suppressing surge currents to the smoothing capacitor (4). The demagnetizing comprises a thermally actuated switch (16) connected in series with one end of a demagnetizing coil (8) by way of a positive characteristic thermistor (15) which is actuated by heat produced by the negative characteritic thermistor (7) or fixed resistance to cut off a demagnetizing current. The current limiting device within the demagnetizing circuit comprises the negative characteristic thermistor (7) or fixed resistance, the positive characteristic thermistor (15) and the thermally actuated switch (16) interposed between the negative characteristic thermistor (7) or fixed resistance and the positive characteristic thermistor (15). The thermally actuated switch (16) comprises a thermally actuated member (26) caused to bend by heat produced by the negative characteristic thermistor (7) or fixed resistor, and a moving contact point (27) and a fixed contact point (28) which are opened by this bending of the thermally actuated member (26).






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